Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation Grant Awards

[Peg Lahey]

BAMFORD-LAHEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FUNDS TWO GRANT PROPOSALS IN 2001
The Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation through its Grants Program has made its first Grant Awards.  During 2001, the Foundation reviewed a large number of letters-of-inquiry and invited a smaller number of applicants to submit complete proposals.  Based on reviews of the completed applications by at least three colleagues and on a reading of the application by the Foundation itself, two proposals were selected for funding of $20,000 each.  One of the grants was awarded to Drs. Hossein Sadrzadeh and Elena Plante from the University of Arizona.  Their project is entitled "Role of oxidative stress in pathogenesis of developmental language disorders."  The second grant was awarded to Dr. Lori Swanson from the University of Tennessee and Dr. Marc Fey from the University of Kansas.  The title of their project is "Use of story retelling and story generation to facilitate the syntactic and narrative skills of children with specific language impairment."  Abstracts of both studies can be found on our website at www.bamford-lahey.org/funded.html. 

 The Foundation is currently completing the processing of additional completed applications and by mid year should have an announcement of one or two more awards.  Inquiries about receiving a grant award should be in the form of a letter-of-inquiry following the procedures outlined on our website www.bamford-lahey.org.  Before submitting an inquiry, applicants for future awards are requested to carefully read the sections Objectives, Orientation, and Grants on the website.  Consideration is only given to projects that are related to developmental language disorders in children and can be completed in one year with maximum funds of  $20,000.  Applications for either research or development projects will be considered.  However, projects whose results are limited to particular children or particular clinics are not eligible.

 


  


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